Paul Hendrick Sugarbaker (born November 28, 1941, in

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) is an American

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at the

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. He is known for developments in

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of the

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, including cytoreductive surgery followed by hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy, or HIPEC, a treatment alternately referred to as the Sugarbaker Procedure. Sugarbaker is the elder brother of the surgeon David Sugarbaker. Sugarbaker attended high school in

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and received a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in

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in 1963. In 1967 he graduated from the medical college at

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. He interned and did his residency at

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, serving as chief resident from 1973 to 1976. From 1976 to 1986, he spent ten years at the National Cancer Institute–Surgery Branch of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, as Senior Investigator. He was also head of surgical oncology at Emory University Medical School, and the medical director of surgical oncology at the Washington Cancer Institute at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

Ovarian cancer

Among patients with stage III

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, the addition of HIPEC to interval

cytoreductive surgery Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) is a surgical procedure that aims to reduce the amount of cancer cells in the abdominal cavity for patients with tumors that have spread intraabdominally (peritoneal carcinomatosis). It is often used to treat ovarian can ...

resulted in longer recurrence-free survival and

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than surgery alone and did not result in higher rates of

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References

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